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Pioneering online tool targets improved decision making in Iraq

Iraq Spatial provides over 200 indicators, including macroeconomic, sectoral, climate, biophysical, and socio-economic data at the national, subnational, and pixel level. The tool enables users to target policies where they are most needed.

Developing a national seed strategy for Iraq

Ineffective seed legislation and strategies are perceived as one of the most significant barriers to improving food security and agricultural production in Iraq. HSAD partners are working with the Ministry of Agriculture to identify policy and regulatory constraints and initiate an appropriate reform and legislative agenda that is capable of effectively raising the productive capacity of Iraq’s agricultural sector.

Promoting conservation agriculture

Conservation agriculture is a sustainable and cost-effective approach to crop management that balances yields, conserves resources, and increases efficiency. HSAD partners are prioritizing the practice as a means of mitigating biophysical constraints and sustaining production against a backdrop of climate change –in Iraq and beyond.

Improving extension services

Improving water security for remote villages

A lack of water is the primary constraint to agricultural growth and food security for a large number of Iraq’s rural communities. So a readily-available and predictable water supply will bring a real boost to crop yields – to improve livelihoods and nutrition across many areas

Sustainable pest management

Integrated Pest Management (IPM), a practical and environmentally-sound approach to pest control, is being tested, refined, and transferred to Iraqi date palm farmers. Recent successes suggest the intervention has the potential to raise productivity and incomes throughout Iraq and the dry areas of the world.

Iraq’s seed production system has made impressive progress in recent years. Building on this progress, one of the main thrusts of the HSAD program is to lend a hand to help strengthen the production of quality seed in the country.

A HSAD extension consultant has just finished a review of the extension work ongoing in Iraq. Currently, the main delivery method is through designated centers and farms, which is believed to provide the best way forward in terms of increasing extension capacity.

Date palms have long been an integral part of the irrigated farming systems of central and southern Iraq. Dates and their products represent an important source of household income, especially in rural areas.

In the last quarter of 2013, HSAD, together with ICARDA and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), contributed to a report on the acceptance of Iraq into the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the request of USAID.

Despite the commitment of Iraqi decision makers, ineffective regulatory and policy regimes are perceived as one of the most significant barriers to improving the country’s food security and agricultural production - a problem that partly stems from the limited capacity of Iraqi government institu

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